Soltorp was one of the earliest houses built in the suburb and the private home area Hagaberg in Södertälje in 1904-1906.
For more than fifty years, between 1953 and 2006, Soltorp was a summer cottage. This long time as a summer cottage has meant that the house was kept relatively unchanged. Many of the garden plants were relocated from Soltorp's original garden.
Before it became a summer cottage, Soltorp was home to Elin Nyström who had lived there since the 1930s. First as the housekeeper for the owner at the time, August Lindström, and after his death as the sole owner.
Elin's relatives have told us that she loved her garden, where many cups of coffee were enjoyed.
Soltorp has not changed much since it was built. Water has never been drawn inside and no major renovations have been done either externally or internally. The furniture is partly from Soltorp, but the interior is supplemented with furniture from a home in Järna.
In the first years, the heat came from the iron stove in the kitchen and the fireplace in the room. Electricity was drawn into the house in the 1940s. At the same time, the iron stove was replaced with a wood stove from Husqvarna. What is now a kitchen cupboard may have been a pantry from the beginning and later replaced with a refrigerator. A painting of Soltorp hangs in the kitchen. The painting is probably from the 1920s.
There is no toilet in the house. The outhouse was used as long as the 2000s. The kitchen has no tap. Soltorp did get municipal water, but it was only drawn to a water outpost in the garden.
After Elin's son took over Soltorp to use it as a summer cottage, some modernization took place. In the 1960s, the ceiling got tiles and the interior walls were covered with wood fiberboard. The wallpaper and plastic mats on the floors in the room were also inserted then. The kitchen and the room received electrical elements. The masonite walls in the kitchen are from the same time.
